In his later years, Ioseb Jughashvili, or Joseph Stalin, the self-styled “Man of Steel,” was a physical wreck. Myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease, rendered lame his left hand. Rheumatoid ...

FILE PHOTO The United Nations was established after World War II because its predecessor ... another pretext and began a ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

The Man of Steel has faced political attacks before—going back 85 years. (“Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis ...

It’s hard not to see a straight line between Stalin’s version of photoshopping and the purge of the Pentagon archives in 2025 ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes ...

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Joseph Stalin, or “Uncle Joe” to ...

It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale. Arthur ...

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In June 1942, aiming to crush the Soviet Army and secure the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Case Blue. The German plan called for a renewed blitzkrieg to seize the oil fields of the ...